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Why would they correlate it with level of education? Why not the obvious fact that highly-educated functioning autistic people often have even more autistic ch

• stan_rogers 17y ago
  Probably because it would be statistically overwritten to an NSA-approved level by the obvious fact that the vast majority of autistic people do not develop relationships resulting in progeny. More probable related factors would include increased parental age, particularly maternal age at first-child delivery, increased rates of delegated childrearing during critical developmental phases, parents being physically present but intellectually and/or emotionally absent during the same period, and so forth. The causes of autism are not well understood. Although there is an interesting apparent correlation between visual processing loci (particularly as it applies to facial recognition) and autism, no-one knows whether the anomaly is causal or merely indicative. Even if autism is strictly a product of genetics, "genetic" is not congruent with "inherited" -- else we'd still be a layer of ooze in a tide pond somewhere.